Disclosure of Invention
The invention provides a stir-frying and honey spraying processing device and a stir-frying and honey spraying processing method for honey-fried astragalus mongholicus, which are used for overcoming the defects that the existing equipment cannot rapidly analyze honey in heating, further cannot accurately master the refining degree of the honey in the existing equipment, cannot rapidly clean the honey adhered to the inside of the equipment and cannot ensure continuous and normal discharging of honey-fried astragalus mongholicus.
The technical scheme of the invention is that the stir-frying honey spraying processing and stir-frying method of the stir-fried astragalus root comprises the following steps:
S1, refining honey, namely heating the honey, reducing the moisture in the honey and eliminating microorganisms in the honey;
s2, soaking, namely diluting refined honey, mixing flaky astragalus membranaceus with diluted honey, and standing for 2 hours to fully soak the honey into the flaky astragalus membranaceus;
S3, stir-frying the flaky astragalus roots immersed in the step S2 until the surfaces of the astragalus roots are slightly yellow and focal spots are generated, so that the moisture in the astragalus roots is fully evaporated;
S4, cooling, namely dispersing and cooling the fried astragalus so that the surface of the astragalus is dried and is not sticky to hands, and preparing the honey-fried astragalus.
A stir-frying honey spraying processing device for honey-fried astragalus membranaceus comprises a fixing frame and a reaction kettle, wherein the reaction kettle for mixing honey and astragalus membranaceus is arranged on the left side of the fixing frame, the device further comprises a bottom plate, a scraper and a sampling system, the bottom plate which can be used for adjusting an inclination angle in a rotating mode and enabling honey-fried astragalus membranaceus to be discharged rapidly is arranged on the lower side of the reaction kettle, the scraper which can be used for scraping residual honey in a rotating mode is arranged on the upper side of the bottom plate, a plurality of guide grooves are formed in the scraper, and the sampling system for sampling honey in the heating process is arranged on the right side of the reaction kettle.
More preferably, the bottom plate is provided in a disc shape having a parallelogram in longitudinal section.
More preferably, the guide grooves are provided in an inclined shape and directed toward the edge of the base plate, while the guide grooves are symmetrically distributed with reference to the midpoint of the scraper.
The scraper is characterized by further comprising a first rotating shaft, a second rotating shaft, a third rotating shaft, elastic pieces and a first sliding block, wherein the first rotating shaft is rotationally connected to the lower side of the reaction kettle, the first rotating shaft is fixedly connected with the bottom plate, the second rotating shaft which can rotate is arranged in the reaction kettle, the third rotating shaft is movably connected to the lower side of the second rotating shaft, the two elastic pieces which are symmetrical in front-back are arranged on the lower side of the second rotating shaft, the telescopic ends of the two elastic pieces are fixedly connected with the third rotating shaft, a sliding groove is formed in the middle of the scraper, and the first sliding block is slidingly connected in the sliding groove.
The sampling system comprises an observation box, an air duct, an air pump, a first partition board, a shunt pipe, a flow guide pipe, a hose, sampling pipes, a limiting plate, a second sliding block, a first separator, a second partition board and a third partition board, wherein the middle part of the fixing frame is fixedly connected with the observation box, the air duct is communicated with the upper side of the observation box, the air pump is arranged at the rear side of the observation box, the air pump is communicated with the air duct, two first partition boards which are symmetrical in front and back are fixedly connected in the observation box, three shunt pipes used for conveying honey into the observation box are communicated with the left side of the observation box, the flow guide pipe is communicated with the left side of the three shunt pipes, the hose is communicated with the left side of the flow guide pipe, the lower side of the hose is communicated with the sampling pipes which can be lifted up and down and used for sampling the honey in the heating process, the right side of the reaction kettle is provided with a plurality of sampling holes, the limiting plate is fixedly connected with the left side of the empty groove, the limiting plate is slidingly connected with the second separating block, the sampling pipe penetrates through the second sliding block and is fixedly connected with the second sliding block, the first separator is fixedly connected with the hose, the first separator is fixedly connected with the inside the hose, the sampling pipe is fixedly connected with the left side of the flow guide pipe, the sampling pipe is communicated with the second separator, the sampling pipe is fixedly connected with the second separator, the sampling holes is fixedly connected with the left side of the sampling pipe, the sampling pipe and the upper side of the sampling pipe is provided with the sampling holes with the upper side with the sampling holes and a lower separator.
More preferably, the second separator is configured by an annular array of three rectangular plates, and the upper rectangular plate is smaller in length than the lower rectangular plate, the second separator is configured as a third cylinder, and the third separator is configured as a two-thirds cylinder.
More preferably, the first separator is formed by three annular arrays of Z-shaped elastic rectangular plates, and the flow guide pipe and the hose are divided into three independent chambers by the first separator.
More preferably, the back washing device further comprises a back washing system, wherein the back washing system comprises a water pump, a first water delivery pipe, a second water delivery pipe and baffle plates, the water pump for delivering hot water is arranged at the rear side of the fixing frame, the first water delivery pipe is communicated with the water pump, the first water delivery pipe is communicated with the flow guide pipe, the second water delivery pipe is communicated with the front side of the observation box, the left side of the second water delivery pipe is communicated with the reaction kettle, and the baffle plates for controlling the flow direction of honey and hot water are respectively arranged in each sampling hole.
More preferably, the baffle plates are all arranged to be larger than the diameter of the sampling hole, and can be opened only in one direction.
Compared with the prior art, the invention has the advantages that the cleaning of the superfluous honey in the equipment is realized through the matching of the bottom plate and the scraper, meanwhile, the rapid discharging of the honey-fried astragalus is completed, the failure rate and the maintenance difficulty of the equipment are effectively reduced, the continuous operation of the equipment is ensured, and the influence of the residual honey on the quality of the subsequent honey-fried astragalus is effectively avoided while the processing efficiency is improved;
Meanwhile, the invention realizes real-time sampling of honey at different positions in the reaction kettle through the matching of the observation box, the shunt tube and the sampling tube, thereby helping operators accurately judge the refining degree of the current honey, preventing the waste of processing raw materials due to the coking of the honey, effectively reducing the production cost and simultaneously effectively improving the product quality;
Furthermore, the invention realizes the dilution of honey and simultaneously quickly cleans the residual honey in the related parts of the sampling system by the cooperation of the first water pipe, the second water pipe and the baffle plate, thereby preventing the residual honey from influencing the processing of honey-fried astragalus root in the next batch, greatly reducing the maintenance difficulty of equipment, effectively recycling the residual honey and further reducing the production cost and the maintenance cost.
Drawings
FIG. 1 is a schematic perspective view of a first embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a schematic view of a second perspective structure of the present invention;
FIG. 3 is a schematic view of a first part of the structure of the present invention;
FIG. 4 is a first partial cross-sectional view of the present invention;
FIG. 5 is a second partial cross-sectional view of the present invention;
FIG. 6 is a third partial cross-sectional view of the present invention;
fig. 7 is a schematic perspective view of a scraper according to the present invention;
FIG. 8 is a schematic view of a second part of the structure of the present invention;
FIG. 9 is a third partial cross-sectional view of the present invention;
FIG. 10 is a schematic perspective view of a sampling system according to the present invention;
FIG. 11 is a first partial cross-sectional view of the sampling system of the present invention;
FIG. 12 is a second partial cross-sectional view of the sampling system of the present invention;
FIG. 13 is a third partial cross-sectional view of the sampling system of the present invention;
FIG. 14 is a schematic perspective view of a backwash system of the present invention;
FIG. 15 is a partial cross-sectional view of a backwash system of the present invention.
The marks of all parts in the drawing are as follows, 1-fixing frame, 2-reaction kettle, 2001-empty groove, 3-bottom plate, 4-scraper, 4001-chute, 4002-guiding groove, 101-first servo motor, 102-second servo motor, 103-first rotating shaft, 104-second rotating shaft, 105-third rotating shaft, 106-elastic piece, 107-first sliding block, 201-observation box, 202-air duct, 203-air pump, 204-first baffle, 205-shunt pipe, 206-flow guide pipe, 207-hose, 208-sampling pipe, 20801-sampling hole, 209-limiting plate, 210-second sliding block, 211-driving piece, 212-first separator, 213-second separator, 214-second baffle, 215-third baffle, 301-water pump, 302-first water duct, 303-second water duct and 304-baffle.
Detailed Description
The following description of the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be clear and complete, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are only some embodiments of the present invention, but not all embodiments. All other embodiments, which can be made by those skilled in the art based on the embodiments of the invention without making any inventive effort, are intended to be within the scope of the invention.
Example 1
A stir-frying and honey spraying processing method for stir-frying radix astragali comprises the following steps:
S1, refining honey, namely heating the honey, reducing the moisture in the honey and eliminating microorganisms in the honey;
s2, soaking, namely diluting refined honey, mixing flaky astragalus membranaceus with diluted honey, and standing for 2 hours to fully soak the honey into the flaky astragalus membranaceus;
S3, stir-frying the flaky astragalus roots immersed in the step S2 until the surfaces of the astragalus roots are slightly yellow and focal spots are generated, so that the moisture in the astragalus roots is fully evaporated;
S4, cooling, namely dispersing and cooling the fried astragalus so that the surface of the astragalus is dried and is not sticky to hands, and preparing the honey-fried astragalus.
As shown in figures 3-7, the stir-frying honey spraying processing device and the honey homogenizing method for the honey-fried astragalus membranaceus comprise a fixing frame 1 and a reaction kettle 2, wherein the reaction kettle 2 is arranged on the left side of the fixing frame 1, a bottom plate 3, a scraper 4 and a sampling system are further arranged on the left side of the fixing frame, the bottom plate 3 is arranged on the lower side of the reaction kettle 2, the scraper 4 is arranged on the upper side of the bottom plate 3, a plurality of guide grooves 4002 are formed in the scraper 4, honey scraped off by the scraper 4 is guided to the edge of the bottom plate 3 through the guide grooves 4002 so as to be convenient to discharge and prevent residues, the sampling system is arranged on the right side of the reaction kettle 2, the honey-fried astragalus membranaceus which is fried in the reaction kettle 2 can be discharged rapidly through the rotation and inclination of the bottom plate 3, and meanwhile honey adhered to the upper surface of the bottom plate 3 is scraped through the scraper 4.
The bottom plate 3 is arranged to be a disc with a parallelogram longitudinal section, so that the fit degree of the bottom plate 3 and the reaction kettle 2 is improved, honey is prevented from flowing out of the lower side of the reaction kettle 2, and meanwhile, a movable space is provided for rotation of the bottom plate 3.
The guide groove 4002 sets up to the slope form, and towards bottom plate 3 edge, and the while guide groove 4002 uses the point of scraper 4 to be the benchmark symmetric distribution, when making scraper 4 strike off the remaining honey of bottom plate 3 upper surface, can guide the honey to bottom plate 3 edge simultaneously, realizes the quick clearance to remaining honey.
The scraper comprises a bottom plate 3, a first rotating shaft 103, a second rotating shaft 104, a third rotating shaft 105, elastic pieces 106 and a first sliding block 107, wherein the lower side of the reaction kettle 2 is rotatably connected with the first rotating shaft 103, the first rotating shaft 103 is fixedly connected with the bottom plate 3, the second rotating shaft 104 is arranged in the reaction kettle 2, the lower side of the second rotating shaft 104 is movably connected with the third rotating shaft 105, two elastic pieces 106 which are symmetrical in front and back are arranged on the lower side of the second rotating shaft 104, the elastic pieces 106 are spring expansion plates, the expansion ends of the two elastic pieces 106 are fixedly connected with the third rotating shaft 105, a sliding groove 4001 is arranged in the middle of the scraper 4, the first sliding block 107 is connected in a sliding way in the sliding groove 4001, the scraper 4 is tightly attached to the upper surface of the bottom plate 3 through the cooperation of the third rotating shaft 105, the elastic pieces 106 and the first sliding block 107, and the scraper 4 can incline along the bottom plate 3.
The scraper comprises a scraper body, a scraper 4, a first rotating shaft 103, a second rotating shaft 103, a first servo motor 101, a second servo motor 102, a scraper 4 and a bottom plate 3, wherein the driving unit comprises the first servo motor 101 and the second servo motor 102, the first servo motor 101 is arranged on the upper side of the reaction kettle 2, the output end of the first servo motor 101 is fixedly connected with the second rotating shaft 104, the second servo motor 102 is arranged on the lower side of the reaction kettle 2, the output end of the second servo motor 102 is fixedly connected with the first rotating shaft 103, the second rotating shaft 104 is driven to rotate by driving the first servo motor 101, and the scraper 4 is further rotated by driving the second servo motor 102 to drive the first rotating shaft 103 to rotate.
The process for cleaning the residual honey and realizing quick discharging comprises the following steps:
In the stir-frying process of honey-fried astragalus membranaceus, most honey is attached to the surface of the flaky astragalus membranaceus, excessive honey is downwards deposited on the upper surface of the bottom plate 3, moisture in the honey is heated and continuously evaporated, so that the adhesive force of the honey is gradually enhanced, the excessive honey is adhered to the upper surface of the bottom plate 3, the second servo motor 102 is driven to drive the first rotating shaft 103 to rotate, the bottom plate 3 is further driven to rotate downwards by a certain angle based on the lower surface of the reaction kettle 2, the left side of the bottom plate 3 is downwards inclined and forms a certain gap with the lower surface of the reaction kettle 2, the right side of the bottom plate 3 is upwards moved to drive the right side of the scraper 4 to upwards move, the third rotating shaft 105 and the first sliding block 107 slide towards the right side in the chute 4001, and simultaneously under the action of the extrusion of the two elastic pieces 106, the scraper 4 is tightly attached to the surface of the bottom plate 3, namely as shown in figure 5, at this time, the first servo motor 101 starts working, the second rotating shaft 104 is driven to rotate by the first servo motor 101, and then the scraper 4 is driven to rotate to cling to the upper surface of the bottom plate 3, so that honey on the upper surface of the bottom plate 3 is scraped by the scraper 4, as a plurality of guide grooves 4002 are arranged on the scraper 4, the scraped honey can be guided to the edge of the bottom plate 3 by the guide grooves 4002, and meanwhile, honey-fried astragalus root on the bottom plate 3 is driven to move, and at this time, the residual honey and the honey-fried astragalus root are conveyed out of the reaction kettle 2 from the left side of the bottom plate 3 by matching with the inclination angle formed by the rotation of the bottom plate 3, thereby realizing the cleaning of the residual honey in the equipment, simultaneously realizing the rapid discharging of the honey-fried astragalus root, effectively reducing the failure rate and maintenance difficulty of the equipment, simultaneously guaranteeing the continuous operation of the equipment, and improving the processing efficiency, effectively avoiding the influence of residual honey on the quality of the subsequent honey-fried astragalus.
Example 2
8-13, Based on embodiment 1, the sampling system includes an observation box 201, an air duct 202, an air pump 203, a first partition 204, a shunt tube 205, a flow guide tube 206, a hose 207, a sampling tube 208, a limiting plate 209, a second slider 210, a driving member 211, a first separator 212, a second separator 213, a second partition 214, and a third partition 215; the middle part of the fixing frame 1 is fixedly connected with an observation box 201; the upper side of the observation box 201 is communicated with an air duct 202; the rear side of the observation box 201 is provided with an air pump 203, the air pump 203 is communicated with an air duct 202, two first baffle plates 204 which are symmetrical in front and back are fixedly connected in the observation box 201, the interior of the observation box 201 is divided into three spaces by the two first baffle plates 204, the left side of the observation box 201 is communicated with three diversion pipes 205, the left side of the three diversion pipes 205 is communicated with a diversion pipe 206, the left side of the diversion pipe 206 is communicated with a hose 207, the lower side of the hose 207 is communicated with a sampling pipe 208, a plurality of sampling holes 20801 are arranged on the sampling pipe 208, honey enters the sampling pipe 208 through the sampling holes 20801 to realize sampling, the right side of the reaction kettle 2 is provided with a hollow groove 2001, the left side of the hollow groove 2001 is fixedly connected with a limiting plate 209, the limiting plate 209 is connected with a second slide block 210 in a penetrating way through the second slide block 210, a driving piece 211 is arranged in the hollow groove 2001, the driving piece 211 is an electric push rod, the output end of the driving piece 211 is fixedly connected with the sampling pipe 208, a first separator 212 is arranged in the hose 207, the hollow groove 206 and the hose 207 is internally provided with a first separator 215, the diversion pipe 206 and the hose 207 are internally provided with a plurality of sampling holes 208, the sampling holes 20801 are respectively arranged in the first separator 215, the first separator 215 and the second separator 213 are mutually separated from the diversion pipe 206 and the third separator 208 by the second separator 215 and the second separator 213 are mutually independent chamber 213, the second separator 213 is fixedly connected with the second baffle plates 213 by the second separator 213, divide into three different size's cavity in sampling tube 208, absorb the honey through air pump 203 and sampling tube 208 cooperation, and then through shunt tubes 205, honeycomb duct 206 and hose 207's cooperation, carry the honey to the observation box 201 in, realize the real-time observation analysis to the honey.
The second separator 213 is formed by three rectangular plate annular arrays, the upper rectangular plate is smaller than the lower rectangular plate, the second separator 214 is a third cylinder, the third separator 215 is a two-third cylinder, and the inside of the sampling tube 208 is divided into three chambers which are different in size and independent from each other through the cooperation of the second separator 213, the second separator 214 and the third separator 215.
The first separator 212 is configured to be composed of three annular arrays of Z-shaped elastic rectangular plates, the flow guide pipe 206 and the hose 207 are divided into three independent chambers by the first separator 212, and when the driving piece 211 drives the sampling pipe 208 to lift and cause the hose 207 to deform, the first separator 212 can move along with the deformation of the hose 207.
The honey sampling and analyzing process in the heating process comprises the following steps:
In the process of heating and refining honey, operators need to observe the honey in heating in the reaction kettle 2, prevent the honey from being coked due to overlong heating time, drive the sampling tube 208 to lift through the driving piece 211, enable the sampling tube 208 to sample the honey at different positions in the vertical direction in the reaction kettle 2, simultaneously enable the second sliding block 210 to slide in the limiting plate 209, prevent the honey from remaining in the empty groove 2001 and being unable to be cleaned, and avoid the honey from affecting the normal work of the driving piece 211, and because the second separator 213 is arranged in the sampling tube 208, The second separator 214 and the third separator 215 are matched and separated into three mutually independent chambers, a plurality of sampling holes 20801 are formed in each independent chamber, so that the sampling pipes 208 can simultaneously sample honey at different positions in the horizontal direction in the reaction kettle 2, after most of water in the honey is heated and evaporated, the adhesive force of the honey is increased, the fluidity is reduced, the honey is deposited downwards along the vertical direction, the honey on the upper surface of the bottom plate 3 is easy to be coked, the honey on the upper surface of the bottom plate 3 is sampled, the refining degree of the current honey can be accurately judged, further, the scraper 4 is tightly attached to the upper surface of the bottom plate 3, when the scraper 4 scrapes along the upper surface of the bottom plate 3, part of the honey on the upper surface of the bottom plate 3 can be driven to move upwards, at the moment, the sampling pipes 208 are driven to descend to the upper surface of the bottom plate 3 through the driving piece 211, then an operator adds cold water into the observation box 201, and at the same time, the air pump 203 starts working, the air in the observation box 201 is pumped through the cooperation of the air pump 203 and the air guide pipe 202, and then the shunt tubes 205 are used for extracting the air in the observation box 201, The honeycomb duct 206 and the hose 207 are matched with the sampling hole 20801 on the sampling tube 208 to absorb the honey on the upper surface of the bottom plate 3, and then the first separator 212, the second separator 213, the second separator 214 and the third separator 215 are matched to ensure that the center of the reaction kettle 2 is provided with, The honey in three positions in the middle of the reaction kettle 2 and the inner wall of the reaction kettle 2 respectively enter three independent chambers of the flow guide pipe 206, then the honey is conveyed into cold water in the observation box 201 through the three flow dividing pipes 205, the operator can observe the color and the state of the honey in the cold water through naked eyes because the observation box 201 is made of transparent materials, meanwhile, the interior of the observation box 201 is divided into three parts through the two first partition boards 204, each part corresponds to the adjacent flow dividing pipes 205 respectively, the operator can easily distinguish the color and the state of the honey in the cold water in different positions, when the honey at the inner wall of the reaction kettle 2 is dripped into water to form the bead but the center of the reaction kettle 2 and the honey at the middle of the reaction kettle 2 are still not formed, the current temperature is required to be kept to be continuously heated, when the honey at the inner wall of the reaction kettle 2 and the center of the reaction kettle 2 is dripped into the bead but the honey is not formed, the temperature is required to be reduced and the honey is continuously heated, when the color of the honey at the inner wall of the reaction kettle 2 is dripped into the water, the inner wall of the reaction kettle is obviously deepened, the honey at the inner wall of the reaction kettle is required to be completely heated, the honey is required to be completely heated, the heating frequency of the honey is required to be accurately produced, and the raw materials are accurately and accurately required to be accurately heated by the raw materials are accurately by the raw materials.
Example 3
As shown in fig. 1, fig. 2 and fig. 14-15, on the basis of the embodiment 1-2, a back flushing system is further included, the back flushing system comprises a water pump 301, a first water pipe 302, a second water pipe 303 and a baffle plate 304, the water pump 301 is installed on the rear side of the fixing frame 1, the first water pipe 302 is communicated with the water pump 301, the first water pipe 302 is communicated with the guide pipe 206, the front side of the observation box 201 is communicated with the second water pipe 303, the left side of the second water pipe 303 is communicated with the reaction kettle 2, each sampling hole 20801 is internally provided with the baffle plate 304, the hot water pump 301 is pumped into the first water pipe 302 through the water pump 301, the hot water is further led into the split pipe 205 through the guide pipe 206 by the baffle plate 304, and then the hot water is conveyed to the reaction kettle 2 through the second water pipe 303 of the observation box 201.
The baffle 304 is all set to the diameter be greater than the thief hole 20801 diameter, and all can only one-way opening, when the baffle 304 receives hot water impact effect, the baffle 304 opens outside the sampling tube 208, because the baffle 304 diameter is greater than the thief hole 20801 diameter, makes the baffle 304 hug closely the sampling tube 208 inner wall to make the baffle 304 seal the thief hole 20801 in hot water flow in-process, prevent that hot water from flowing out from the thief hole 20801.
Be provided with a plurality of through-hole on the first baffle 204, when first baffle 204 stores up cold water in observation box 201, different cavities can be separated to first baffle 204, makes the honey of different positions of operating personnel distinguish directly perceivedly, when entering hot water in the observation box 201, the hot water that has dissolved the honey can flow between different cavities through the through-hole that sets up on the first baffle 204 to strengthen the cleaning effect of hot water to the honey in the observation box 201, make the hot water simultaneously concentrated transport to in the second raceway 303.
The back flushing process of the sampling system is as follows:
When the honey refining step is completed, hot water is required to be added into the refined honey for dilution so as to facilitate the subsequent infiltration of the flaky astragalus, at the moment, the water pump 301 starts to work, the hot water pump 301 is pumped into the first water delivery pipe 302 through the water pump 301, the hot water is further supplied to the sampling tube 208 through the flow guide tube 206 and the hose 207 which are in communication with the first water pipe 302, and at this time, the water flow direction is from right to left with the sampling tube 208 as a reference, because the baffles 304 on the sampling holes 20801 are all configured to have a diameter greater than the diameter of the sampling holes 20801 and can only be opened into the sampling tube 208, when water flows from right to left, the baffle 304 is affected by the water pressure, will cling to the inner wall of the sampling tube 208, further, the sampling hole 20801 is sealed, at this time, the hot water will dissolve the honey remained in the sampling tube 208, meanwhile, since the sampling tube 208 is in a closed state at this time, hot water will flow back along the direction of the draft tube 206 and the hose 207, so that the hot water is respectively delivered to the three shunt tubes 205, and after the hot water dissolves the honey remained in the three shunt tubes 205, further into the observation box 201, so that the hot water can clean the observation box 201, because the first baffle 204 is provided with a plurality of through holes, hot water after dissolving honey can flow in three cavities in the observation box 201, the cleaning efficiency is improved, and further, the hot water in the observation box 201 is conveyed to the reaction kettle 2 through the second water conveying pipe 303, so as to realize the dilution of the honey, meanwhile, the honey remained in the related parts of the sampling system is cleaned rapidly, the influence of the remained honey on the processing of the honey-fried astragalus in the next batch is prevented, the maintenance difficulty of equipment is greatly reduced, meanwhile, the residual honey is effectively recycled, so that the production cost and the maintenance cost are further reduced.
While the present disclosure has been shown and described with reference to certain exemplary embodiments thereof, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that various changes in form and details may be made therein without departing from the spirit and scope of the present disclosure as defined by the appended claims and their equivalents. The scope of the disclosure should, therefore, not be limited to the above-described embodiments, but should be determined not only by the following claims, but also by the equivalents of the following claims.